How to lower cholesterol naturally – Part 2 of how lifestyle affect cholesterol.
Alcohol consumption also puts an individual at an increased risk for many health related conditions and diseases including increasing your risk for high cholesterol. Drinking alcohol increases your liver’s duty to detoxify the blood, which can cause harm to your blood vessels. Your liver has to do double-duty as it cleanses your liver of the alcohol and tries to rid the liver of too much LDL cholesterol.
It has difficulty doing this double-duty and too much LDL cholesterol can as a result be left in the bloodstream to collect in the arteries leading to our heart and brain which in turn increases the plaque in these arteries which leads to blood clots disengaging from these clogged arteries which when they break out and occur in the heart cause heart blockage and damaged cardiac cells leading to a heart attack and possible death.
The same damage can occur in the arteries leading to the brain can cause stroke.
Good cholesterol HDL increases when a person exercise, a simple brisk walk of 20-30 mins that raised the heart rate for 20 continous minute will increase simply increases the good cholesterol.
We want the HDL cholesterol to be high as the HDL is what helps to remove plaque from our arteries and help to decrease the level of LDL cholesterol the bad cholesterol in our blood.
The other effect of exercise is that it reduces our body weight especially if we are over weight, as obesity is also another risk factor for high cholesterol which may lead to heart diseas and stroke.
It is easy to increase your activity level simply by taking the dog for a walk, or doing simple household chores for at least a continual 20 to 30 minutes each day.
Excessive amounts of emotional or mental stress can lead to major health problems including unhealthy cholesterol levels.
Exercise is the most common way to handle stress, incidentally, exercise is also a very good way to get out of sedantry lifestyle and it is an almost sure fire way to reduce weight, both also a key contributor to unhealthy cholesterol level.Other then keeping the body moving there by increases your body flexibility, exercise also naturally take away your attention away from your problems and stress as you need to focus on the thing at hand, this is especailly so if you exercise outdoor. Biking, jogging, swimming and walking are all good exercise choices as well as any aerobic exercise program that will raise your heart rate for at least 20 to 30 minutes each day.
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